2. Internet2 Health Sciences Mary Kratz Manager Internet2 Health Science Initiatives Coalition for Networked Information Washington, DC 10 April 2001 See http://apps.internet2.edu/health

3. People on the Internet Source: Nua Internet Surveys Millions of People

4. Yesterday’s Internet  Thousands of users  Remote login, file transfer  Interconnect mainframe computers  Applications capitalize on underlying technology

5. Today’s Internet  Millions of users  Web, email, low-quality audio & video “World Wide Wait”  Interconnect personal computers and servers  Applications adapt to underlying technology

6. Today’s Internet Doesn’t  Provide reliable end-to-end performance  Encourage cooperation on new capabilities  Allow testing of new technologies  Support development of revolutionary applications

7. Tomorrow’s Internet  Billions of users and devices  Convergence of today’s applications with multimedia (telephony, video- conference, HDTV)  Interconnect personal computers, servers, and embedded computers  New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)

8. Challenges to Higher Education  Human Computer Interaction Virtual learning environments Virtual meetings and seminars Shared authoring and research collaboration  Remote instrumentation is cumbersome  Access between higher edu resources and corporate environments restricted  Distributed large scale computing and database

9. Internet2 Mission  Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

10. Internet2 Goals  Enable new generation of applications  Re-create leading edge R&E network capability  Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

11. Internet2 Corporate Partners  3Com  Advanced Network & Services  Alcatel  AT&T  Cisco Systems  IBM  ITC^Deltacom  Lucent Technologies  Marconi Communications  Microsoft  Nortel Networks  Qwest Communications  SBC Communications  Spirent Communications  WCI Cable  WorldCom

12. Additional Participation  Over 70 Internet2 Corporate Members  Over 40 Affiliate Members  Over 30 International Partners

13. Internet2 Universities 185 Universities as of April 2001

14. Internet2 Backbone Networks Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, NCSA

15. Abilene Network -Qwest

16. Internet2 GigaPoPs 27 as of April 2001

17. Abilene Network Logical Map

18. Internet2 Focus Areas  Advanced Network Infrastructure  Middleware  New Network Capabilities  Advanced Applications  Partnerships

19. Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)

20. Application Attributes  Interactive research collaboration and instruction  Real-time access to remote resources  Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining  Shared virtual reality  Any combination of the above

21. Advanced Applications  Distributed computation  Virtual laboratories  Digital libraries  Distributed learning  Digital video  Tele-immersion  All of the above in combination

22. Health Sciences  Internet2 Health Science Initiative  Health Science Workgroup activities  Advanced Medical Applications

23. "When the explorer is ready the guide will appear." -- Himalayan Saying (Reference from EVL at UIC)

24. The Scope of the Internet2 Health Science Workgroup includes clinical practice, medical and related biological research, education, and medical awareness in the Public.

25. With an Emphasis On:  Medical applications on the Internet.  Development of application tools to take advantage of Internet2 advanced network services.  Leverage and influence Internet2 resources to apply solutions to the medical domain.  Inform the medical community of these activities.

26. Goals and Objectives  Focus on research partnerships for advanced applications  Enhance collaboration and information sharing  Development of demonstrations and tools  Cooperate on standards to maintain global interoperability

27. Coordination  Clinical Care  Research  Education  Academia  Industry  Government

28. Two Bowers of Health Sciences  Health Care HIPAA System Integration “Traditional Informatics”  Life Sciences Genomics Structural Biology Clinical Trials Nanotechnology

29. NCRR: Integration Role for Internet2 Virtual Laboratories Biocomplexity Security Data Management Multidisciplinary

30. Internet2 Member Universities 185 Members As of February 2001  120 internet2 member universities have medical colleges (AAMC members)  About 50 members active in health sciences  Strong leadership team  Working closely with NIH/NLM Hawaii

31. University-led Federal agency-led Developing education and research driven applications Agency mission-driven and general purpose applications Building out campus networks, gigaPoPs and inter-gigapop infrastructure Funding research testbeds and agency research networks Interconnecting and interoperating to provide advanced networking capabilities needed to support advanced research and education applications Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative Internet2NGI

32. Roadmap  Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet National Research Council Report Current and future Internet Released 24 February 2000  National Academy Press  ISBN 0-309-06843-6

33. Network of Collaborations  People to people Collaborations Engineering expertise Medical expertise  Information access Libraries and knowledge bases Data stores (ie. Clinical) Metadata definitions  Resources Abilene backbone Advanced research applications and tools Facilities –Virtual laboratories –Super computers –Knowledge Clearinghouse

34. Health Science Workgroups

35. Health Science Working Groups  Medical Middleware  Medical Security  Medical Distance Education  Veterinary Medical Working Group  Visible Human Collaboratory  Regional Testbeds (connectivity in medicine)  Future Health Science Working Groups Quality of Service Structural Biology Nanotechnology Human Genome Clinical Trials

36. Medical Middleware Working Group  Medical Middleware Leads Rob Carter –Director Systems Administration Office of Information Technology, Duke University Jack Buchanan, MSEE, MD –Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis –Staff Physician, Memphis VA Medical Center  MACEmed Middleware Architecture Committee for Education in Medicine Electronic health record collaboratory formation

37. Medical Security Working Group  Security Lead Jere Retzer –Chair of the Portland Research and Education Network (PREN) –Manager of Advanced Internet Programs Oregon Health Science University  Workshop collaboration on HIPAA Guidelines  Plethora of future activities CERTmed “IRB”-like activity for security and privacy occurrences  Privacy goes hand in hand with security

38. Medical Education  Medical / Distance Education Lead Bill Hersh, OSHU  Numerous web based curriculum  Visible Human Project creating content and tools  Collaboration with AAMC  Sharing of resources across universities Expertise Content Knowledge bases Application tools

39. Veterinary Medical  Veterinary Medical Lead Gary Allen, UMissouri  Objectives Connectivity of national veterinary schools Sharing of resources (content, computation, etc.)  Use of digital video Video conferencing Lameness research  Collaboration with AVMA Talbot Symposium in July Planning session to establish deliverables

40. Visible Human Collaboratory  National Library of Medicine NGI contracts  Connectivity of research campuses Stanford SUMMIT University of Michigan Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (University of Colorado)  Collaboration tools  Anatomy curriculum

41. Industry Coordination  Industry outreach and education AMIA 2000 RSNA 2000 AAMC GIR 2001 RSNA 2001  Leadership strategies with AAMC GIR  National testbeds  Standards coordination  International collaborations

42. Digital Video Testbeds  Digital Video - Lead by Jill Gemmill (UAB)  Access Grid – pending lead for Health Sciences –Utah –Boston University –UC –NWU –University of Illinois Chicago –Kansas –UIUC

43. Future Working Groups  Quality of Service  End to End Performance Visible Human Collaboratory  Clinical Trials  Biomedical Leadership Team in formation Nanotechnology Genomics Structural Biology

44. http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Pubs/NASnews/97/09/ipg_fig1.html The BIG Picture

45. Applications

46. Digital Video Applications  Broadcast TV quality videoconferencing  Both live distribution and on-demand access to a variety of content  HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio production, …

47. Collaborative Video Conferencing National Library of Medicine, NIH

48. 3D Brain Mapping: “Watching the Brain in Action” University of Pittsburgh Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

50. Teleimmersion University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois-NCSA Old Dominion University

51. The CAVE

52. The Virtual Pelvic Floor and The Virtual Temporal Bone University of Illinois at Chicago

53. Immersadesk

54. Funded by National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health NO1-LM-9-3543 College of Health and Human Development Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago Virtual Pelvic Floor

55. Funded by National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health NO1-LM-9-3543 College of Health and Human Development Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago Virtual Pelvic Floor

56. Much More Information  Mary Kratz Internet2, Health Sciences 3025 Boardwalk, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 1.734.352.7004 Mkratz@internet2.edu  www.internet2.edu  www.internet2.edu/health

57. www.internet2.edu